The years of welding at Hogwarts

Of course, this may also be closely related to the fact that there are only three relatively famous bars in the British wizarding world.

Perhaps because the students of Hogwarts are all in military training, the Leaky Cauldron in Diagon Alley has launched the Veela Dance, a creative way to entertain people while drinking.

The Three Broomsticks Pub, which had nothing innovative in it, looked deserted. Apart from the native residents of Hogsmeade village, there were no other outside customers who came here to visit.

Except for one person.

An old wizard with gray hair but bright spirit sat quietly in a corner by the window in the bar, with a bottle of fire whiskey on the table in front of him.

Although there was only one person, there were two wine glasses in front of him.

It was obvious that he was waiting for someone.

Not long after, accompanied by the iconic bang of Apparition, the door of the Three Broomsticks Bar was pushed open, and a middle-aged man wearing a black top hat and a black double-breasted tweed coat walked in.

Without waiting for the bar owner, Ms. Rosmerta, to greet him, the man swept his eyes around the Three Broomsticks and locked onto the target he was looking for.

John Shafik hung his heavy coat on the back of the chair, sat down opposite the old wizard, and placed his top hat on the table.

"Have you seen the child?"

As the old wizard spoke, he picked up the bottle on the table and poured himself a full glass of whiskey.

"Yes," John laughed, "You'd never guess what he just did in front of everyone."

The old wizard still looked calm and said in a calm tone, "Oh? What's the matter?"

John did not answer the old wizard's question immediately. Instead, he reached into his collar and pulled out a pendant with a slightly strange shape.

It was a simple emblem made up of a triangle, a circle and vertical lines.

"For the greater good."

Chapter 308 Are You Dumbledore's Favorite Student?

"For the greater good."

This extremely simple sentence consisting of only four words seemed to have some magic power, causing the old wizard to stop pouring the wine.

It was not until two seconds later that the bottle in his hand tilted again, and the amber wine poured out from the bottle mouth and fell into the glass on the table, rolling and curling in the glass like waves.

After casually placing the bottle on the table, the old wizard raised his head slightly.

For the first time, a slight emotion fluctuated in his dull, even cold, heterochromatic pupils, and a slight smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

"Did that child really say this?"

John Shafik's mouth curled up, "Not only did he say this, he also led all the students in Hogwarts to shout this slogan together."

After hearing Shafik's words, the old wizard really wanted to throw his head back and laugh out loud, if he hadn't wanted to maintain a nonchalant look.

But doing so is obviously inconsistent with the image he has always shown to the outside world, and is not consistent with his personality and temperament at all. He would not do such a thing even if he was alone.

But even so, the old wizard's mouth

The curvature of the lift is still visible to the naked eye and has become more obvious.

"You are worthy of being the descendant of Gellert Grindelwald."

He picked up the wine glass at hand and put it to his lips, sniffing the fragrance of grains emanating from the amber wine, as well as the smell mixed with some kind of wonderful reaction with the oak barrel that stored the wine. The old wizard took a sip of the wine in the glass.

"It's just that the child is still a little too impulsive."

Gellert Grindelwald shook his head. "Although he has a very strong magical talent, how much strength can a child of his age transform his talent into?"

"He is still too impatient. He has announced his ambitions to the magic world so early. Without sufficient strength to support it, a genius can easily die young."

"Even if he is the winner of the Order of Merlin First Class, relying solely on this honor, how many wizards can he attract as his die-hard followers, gathering under his ideals and fighting for him?"

After hearing Grindelwald's words, Shafik showed a hesitant expression on his face.

Looking at his old master's confident look, for a moment, he had a piece of information he wanted to share with Grindelwald, but he didn't know whether to tell him or not.

In the end, Shafik's loyalty to Grindelwald outweighed any concerns he had.

"that……"

John Shafik said with some hesitation, "Albus Dumbledore's phoenix Fawkes has now changed his mind and followed Master Noah."

After hearing the news from his subordinates, Grindelwald's expression did not change at all. He still held his previous opinion of Noah.

Only strong personal strength is the real and reliable force.

Although he was able to achieve such great success and almost overturned the entire wizarding world at the peak of his career, all this was inseparable from the help of a group of fanatical followers who united under his ideals.

But Gellert Grindelwald knew very well that the reason why the Witch Saints could always follow him was that their trust in the ideas he proposed was only one of the factors.

Personal charm? That is also important, but not absolute.

If he did not have the powerful strength to fight against hundreds of adult wizards on his own, his verbal attacks alone would not be enough to convince those pure-blooded elites and make them his fanatical believers.

The help of followers is just bricks on the road to success, and laying bricks requires your own strength.

No matter how powerful Fox is, it is not Noah's power.

That's why Grindelwald was so dismissive of it.

"That's just an external factor. How can one become a great wizard just by relying on external help? Internal factors, that is, one's own strength, is also an indispensable condition."

John Shafik looked like he had a toothache. At this moment, the word "Ma Mai Beer" was stuck in his throat and he didn't know whether to say it or not.

After thinking for a moment, Shafik tentatively asked, "Master Noah..."

"Just say what you want to say." Grindelwald glanced at him.

"Master Noah..."

When talking about this incident, Shafik himself looked completely incredulous.

"He has mastered the magic of Animagus, which has never been achieved in the history of magic."

Grindelwald, who was drinking, suddenly stopped holding the glass in the air when he heard the news revealed by Shafik.

If it weren't for his years of experience that made him realize that even though he was well-read, there were still many unknown and mysterious magics in this magnificent magical world that he had not known or mastered.

Moreover, one of the essential skills for a Dark Lord is a strong mental quality to remain calm even when faced with a huge crisis.

That's why the wine in Grindelwald's hand didn't spill.

But even so, after putting down his wine glass, Grindelwald still looked at his subordinates with a suspicious look.

"I have personally witnessed his complete transformation process. Although he is still in his infancy, I will never be mistaken. Master Noah has mastered the ability to transform into a phoenix."

In fact, Grindelwald just suffered the loss because he could not show his face openly.

Like Fox's Humagus and Noah's magical Animagus, these two unprecedented innovations, no matter which one is taken out, are earth-shaking academic achievements in the field of Transfiguration.

It's just that Fox's Humagus is basically not replicable. After all, in the vast magical world, only two phoenixes are known to have reached some unknown magical contract with the wizards, and have been living with the wizards as their partners.

One is Albus Dumbledore's phoenix, now it should be said that it is Noah Shafrin's phoenix, that is, Fawkes.

The other is a phoenix named "Spark", the mascot of the New Zealand Quidditch team, the Mottola Macaws.

But Sparks is not as easy to talk to as Fawkes. Perhaps it is because there is no wizard in New Zealand who is like Dumbledore, who can be regarded as the ceiling of the magical world's combat power.

So when Sparks faced these stupid two-legged upright shit shovelers, he always acted superior, as if he were their god, instead of being like Dumbledore and

Fox treats each other as equals.

Therefore, they hoped that the New Zealand wizards could tame Sparks, let Sparks learn their human language, and then study Transfiguration like Fox.

Then forget it.

This is simply something that is impossible to do.

As for other magical creatures, in theory, as long as they are magical creatures with enough magic power to support Animagus transformation, they basically have the possibility of learning Transfiguration.

But that's just a possibility.

With their IQ, except for magical creatures like Boggart who have the ultimate talent for transformation, can other magical creatures really understand and learn to master the magic of wizards?

Not to mention that it is impossible for wizards to teach them with magic alone. Even with the help of Muggle black technology, Noah and Gwen have only succeeded in teaching the three-headed dog Fluffy English.

The IQ of the three-headed dog has surpassed more than 90% of the magical animals in the wizarding world.

Even so, it only managed to learn English with difficulty. It was difficult to teach it the advanced Transfiguration technique, which was extremely difficult and obscure for ordinary wizards.

Then forget it.

This is a severe torture for both learners and teachers.

There is nothing difficult in the world, just give up.

Precisely because Fox's Humagus was not replicable in practice, the paper Noah wrote under the guidance of Professor McGonagall and submitted to "Transfiguration Today" was not published by the editorial department of the journal.

The reviewing editors are also in a dilemma.

Although Humagus is considered a branch of Animagus, it is completely beyond their knowledge level and is beyond their cognitive understanding.

Because there is absolutely no such precedent in the magical world!

Although Fawkes's transformation into a human form had been confirmed in the Battle of London, almost all the students of Hogwarts and the entire Ministry of Magic who came out in full force saw that heroic figure fighting in the sky.

However, for rigorous academic research results such as papers, they cannot directly reverse engineer and design the calculation process based on the answers.

How can they review papers if they can’t even understand them?

Numb, numb.

However, a certain Shafrin imp who was born evil had no intention of letting them go.

While they were still arguing over the paper Noah submitted a few months ago about Xiumagia, bah, Xiumagus, and couldn't make a proper decision.

The second incredible paper is here again.

This time it's about the transformation of the magical Animagus.

Okay, great, that's how you play, right?

The editors, who had given up hope, just lay down and decided not to argue about the matter any further.

Almost the day after Noah successfully restored his human form from a phoenix, the editors of Transfiguration Today came to Hogwarts at the invitation of Professor McGonagall and conducted a complete confirmation and evaluation of the transformation process of Noah and Fawkes.

Before he even got back, the editors had already made the decision not to change a single word and the manuscripts did not need to be reviewed. Since they could not understand or copy them anyway, they just sent Noah's two papers directly.

At the same time, it announced to the entire magical world Noah's unprecedented achievements in the field of transfiguration.

Since Transfiguration Today is a journal with a fixed publication cycle, Noah's two papers cannot be published so quickly.

However, researchers who follow academic trends have already received the news early on.

Although John Shafik was not a researcher in the field of Transfiguration, as the patriarch of the Shafik family, one of the twenty-eight sacred families, he was also aware of such a big event in the field of Transfiguration...

He only knew that this happened, but he didn't know the other party's true identity.

Well, as a member of the Hogwarts Board of Directors, he had waited until today. When he came to the school to watch the ceremony at the invitation of Professor McGonagall, he learned the true identity of the magical Animagus shapeshifter who had been making a lot of noise in the wizarding world recently. He was actually the great-grandson of his first Dark Lord.

In two days, when the new issue of "Transfiguration Today" is published, Grindelwald will know the news even without him telling him actively.

"Phoenix..."

Grindelwald exhaled quietly, "It seems that I underestimated him."

The old man's eyes became brighter and brighter. "Then let me take a good look at whether this little fellow has the ability to stir up a storm in the magic world."

After drinking the fire whiskey in the glass, the old man stood up, casually dropped a gold galleon on the table, and then walked out of the Three Broomsticks.

John Shafik followed the old man respectfully.

"Would you like to see him?"

"No, now is not the best time for the two of us to meet."

Grindelwald habitually touched his heart. Even though that item had not been with him for many years, he still maintained this habit.

The empty feeling in his hands made Grindelwald feel a little dazed.

Today

, more than sixty years have passed, but he sometimes still has an illusion that the thing is still hanging around his neck.

Taking out a pendant from the pocket of his windbreaker, Grindelwald handed it to Shafik behind him.

"Go to Berlin and take my message to August. Ask him to gather our fellow wizards on the European continent who still hold on to their original ideals and ask them to come and see me."

Shafik took the pendant with both hands and bowed his head respectfully. "Do you have any other instructions?"

"When you come back, you can go to Newmont again..."